About us
Antonia Wernig moved to Ireland with her favourite instrument- the uilleann pipes- to study Irish Music and Dance at the University of Limerick in 2007. She lived in Ireland for ten years, to fully immerse herself into the Irish music and culture, and returned to Austria with a BA and MA degree in Irish Traditional Music. During her summer holidays, she organised the first „Trad Music Workshop“ event in Austria in 2009, to bring tutors from Ireland to her students in Austria. Since then, this gathering has grown into an annual event of the Irish Traditional Music community in Austria and beyond. Our festival committee consists of musicians, music teachers and music lovers, who took on the initiative to support the development of traditional Irish Traditional music in the region.
Concept
At the core of our initiative lies the idea to encourage communal music-making in a respectful and open manner. This is why we are especially happy that musicians from Croatia, Germany, Ireland, Scotland, England, Italy, Slovenia, Poland, Sweden and Hungary have already participated in our event. We hope more musicians from our neighbouring and other European countries will join us in the future.
Guests, partners, friends and children of all ages are invited to come along and be part of this musical get-together. We would like to encourage you to join in the sessions and performances as musicians, listeners, and naturally also as dancers.
We love dogs and they are welcome to participate in the event. Obviously we expect them to behave just as well and friendly as all the other human participants as well. 🙂
Thank you!